Last post about Draft2Digital

Last post on the Draft2Digital situation, which as of this writing is now resolved. Some thoughts here about how any other indie author who may have also been impacted by the Fastmail.com lockout could proceed if you want to try to restore a lost D2D account.

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Followup on the Draft2Digital situation

Followup on the Draft2Digital situation I posted yesterday. I’ve now spoken with an actual account manager, and have a better idea of what’s going on. Still not happy, but somewhat less pissed.

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Advice on self-publishing, Part 7: Printing your book

Part 7 of my Advice on Self-Publishing series of posts gets into the first wave of data I have on what you need to do if you want to print your book. I talk some about the espresso book machine, and feature input from several fellow authors on their experiences with CreateSpace.

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Waking up the Advice on Self-Publishing post series

It’s about high time I finished up my series of blog posts on Advice on Self-Publishing. This is your notice that I will be resuming those posts this week, and in case you missed ’em, I review the links to the previous posts.

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Advice on self-publishing, Part 5: Deploying the book for sale

This being part 5 of my ongoing series on self-publishing. Previous posts are: Part 1: Write the book | Part 2: Beta reading and editing | Part 3: Turning your manuscript into an ebook | Part 4: Cover art In this post, I’m going to talk about my experiences putting Faerie Blood up for sale, […]

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Advice on self-publishing, part 4: Cover art

This being part 4 of my ongoing series on self-publishing. Previous posts are: Part 1: Write the book | Part 2: Beta reading and editing | Part 3: Turning your manuscript into an ebook This post’s going to be all about cover art. And the long and short of it, in my experience, is that […]

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Advice on self-publishing, part 2: Beta reading and editing

Apologies for being a bit late in getting this posted, folks–I’ve been fighting a head cold this week, so I’m not entirely up to speed. Nevertheless, here you go, part 2 of my thoughts on self-publishing. Hope y’all find this helpful! This post focuses in particular on beta reading and editing, things that, in my […]

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